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hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are en 
flowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and 
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. -THAT TO SECUEE THESE RIGHTS, GOVERNMENTS 
are instituted among men, deriving their jnst powers from the consent 
OF THE GOVERNED.— THAT WHENEVER ANY FORM OF GOVERNMENT BECOMES 

PROCLAIM LIBERTY THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND TO ALL 

DESTRUCTIVE OF THESE ENDS, IT IS THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO ALTER OB 

to abolish It, and to institute a new Government, laying its foundation on 

■uch principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their 
EAFETY AND HAPPINESS.— PRUDENCE, INDEED, WILL DICTATE THAT GOVERN 
merits long established, should not be changed for light and transient 

CAUSES; AND, ACCORDINGLY, ALL EXPERIENCE HATH SHOWN, THAT MANKIND ARE 

BY ORDER OF THE ASSEMBLY OF THE PROVINCE OF PENNS 

MORE DISPOSED TO 8UFFER, WHILE EVILS ARE 8UFFERABLE. THAN TO RIGHT THEM 

selves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a 

long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce 
them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and 
to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies 
nif such it now the necessity which coo p |^ | strains them to alterjtheir former systems 



Government. The history of the pre ' 



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Absolute tyranny over these States. To pro 

world. — He has refused hie assent to laws the moat wholesome and necessary for the public good. — He has 
forbidden his Governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their 
operation tilt his assent should be obtained; and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend 
to them. — He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those 
people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature; a right inestimable to them, and for 
tuidable to tyrants only. — He has cal led together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and dis 
tantfrom the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with hie 
measures. — He has dissolved Represen tative Houses repeatedly, for opposing, with manly firmness, his invasions 
cntherightsofthepeople.— Hehasrefu sed for along time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected 
whereby the legislative powers, incapa ble of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their 
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from without, and convulsions 

has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose, obstructing the laws for 
of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions 
nations of lands. — He has o bstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to taws for est* 
powers,— He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the) 



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amount and payment of their salaries. —He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers 
to harass our people, and eat out their sub stance.— He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without 
the consent of our Legislature.— He has affe cted to render the military independent of, and superior to, the civil power 
He has combined, with others, to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws 
giving his assent to their Acts of pretended Leg iBlation.— For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.— For protect 
ing them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these States 
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world. For imposing taxes on us without our consent,— For depriving us, in many 
cases, of the benefits of trial by jury.— For transport ing us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences.— For abolishing the free 
system of English Lavre in a neighboring Province establishing therein an arbitrary Government, and enlarging its boundaries. SO 
as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies.— For taking away 
our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering, fundamentally, the powers of our Governments,— For suspending our 
own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever,— He has abdicated Govern 



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rnent here, by declaring us c 

towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.— He, is at this 
death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circums 
totally unworthy the head of a civilijed nation.— He has cons 
Country, to become the executioners of their friend, and bret 
amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of 
tinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions. — In every 
repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. — A 
to be the ruler of a free people.— Nor have we been wanting in atten 
by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction 

We have appealed to their native justice and 

dred, to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt 
eanguinity.— We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which denoun 
2£?Ji{?-~^'' therefore, the Representatives of the United States of Ameri 
TUDE OF OUR INTENTIONS, DO, IN THE NAME. AND BY THE A 

and declare, that these United Colonies are, and of right 

ell allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between th 
independent State,, they here fall power to levy war, cocci ade peace, contract 



„. He has plundered our sea,, ravaged onr coasts, burnt our 

time, transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the work, or 
tances of cruelty and perfidr scarcely paralleled in the most bBrbarou, ages, ana 
trained our fellow-citizens taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their 
hren. or to fall themselves by their hands.— He has excited domestic insurrectiotif 
our frontiers the merciless Indian savage,, whose known rule of warfare is an undi, 
stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms; our 
prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit 
tion to our British brethren.— We have warned them.from time to time, of attempt, made 
We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here 

ntmity, and we have conjured them, by the ties of our common kin 

connections and correspondence,— They, too, have been deaf to the voice of justice and con 
cea our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace 
ca. in General Concress assembled, appealingto the Supreme Judge of th( 'World .for the recti 
UTHORITY OF THE GOOD PEOPLE OF THESE COLONIES. SOLEMNLY PUBLISH 

ought to be. Free and Independent States; that they are absolved from 

em and the State of Great Britain, is, and ought to be, toteJlydisMlved; and that, as tree m4 
alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other Acta end thing, wUlcfe laaepenaent State* 

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IIST O-OJD TRUST. 



THE CRISIS. 



A CELEBRATED CASE 



AT 



MANHATTAN BEACH 



FIRST DIRECT ANSWER and CHALLENGE TO CORBIN. 



WAR 1ST 

MESSRS. CORBIN. HILTON & CO., AND THE 
NEW YORK HERALD. 



An Open Letter to the public, 
DP-A-XTI.. zuisrzi, 

NATURALIZED AMERICAN CITIZEN. 



JJ..1. 7 £X : 



NEW YORK: 

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY JESSE HANEY & CO. 

1879. 



TRADE SUPPLIED BY 

THE AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY. 



Copyright, 1879, by Paul Zunz. 



MOTTOES. 



"A grave silence it was, but not the silence of the 
grave! " 

" It is not what a man believes 
That makes him low or high; 
But how he lives toward his fellow-man 
That we should judge him by." 



(Corbin's position toward the Christians.) 
u To say the truth, so Judas kissed his Master and cried, 
' All hail,' when as he meant — all harm." — Gloster. 



"Pledged but to Truth, to Liberty and Law, 
No favor wins us, and no fear shall awe." 



" There are many who talk of ignorance rather than of 
knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund 
of conversation." — Hazlitt. 



The proudest epitaph shall be the simple entreaty: 
" Write me as one who loved his fellow-men." 



INTRODUCTION. 

ANALYSIS OF THE PRESENT STATE OF AFFAIRS. 

The forerunner of our Constitution. The muddle between 
the reporter, the "Herald" and Corhin, or the great adver- 
tising scheme. The infamy of a sensational press. A few 
words to American citizens. What is a tavernkeeper 's busi- 
ness, and ivhat has become his mania. Car conductors in 
preference to Corbin. Equal rights and duties. Justice 
must be maintained alike for the poor and the rich. Venti- 
lating the Jewish controversy fully and boldly. Swell and 
mob. All retrograde efforts vain in the end. 



GREETING TO ALL! 



HE Declaration of Independence of this great country covers 
this little book and nook — for under its cover alone can we 
rest in peace. It has not been created by Corbin or his 
kind, and it shall not be cremated by them either, and Cor- 
bin has to bow to the dust before its supreme power and sublime 
character. This venerable document is an irrefutable argument for 
itself. I offer its copy in the original bell form as keepsake to my 
fellow citizens. Detach it, put it into a golden frame, enshrine it in 
your mind and memory, and resort to it in the dark hours of trouble 
and doubt in all public questions, and be true to it! It will save you 
and save all! 

A man by the name of Corbin, of whom I never heard before, 
mtrodenced himself to the world by a daring feat. Before the set of 
the summer, he and his set made a summerset and jumped upon the 
neck of the community, and went down. The acrobat has dared to 
trample upon the legacy of IV 76, has transgressed its golden rules, and 
violated its fine essence. 

It does not need a second Declaration of Independence, however — 
there are things which can only be produced once and last forever; its 
principles must be observed and enforced. 

I adore two things before all — Liberty and the American ladies. 
Whoever attacks them, attacks me. The higher he is, apparently, 
that attacks them, the lower he is, actually. 

I was waiting — yes, waiting — for a better man to come forward 
with his opinion or work, but none came. My article was, for the 
greatest part, written in the Palmer House, Chicago, and ready in 
July, as the editor of the Chicago Tribune can testify, but I wanted 
to defer publication until my return to New York and give others a 
chance first, and let the heat of the excitement subside, in order to 
appeal to a fairer judgment and not to take advantage of the momen- 
tary indignation. The time has come to act. 

A great many people believe that the motive of Corbin was merely 
to advertise, and that the same advertisement in a legitimate and regu- 
lar way would have cost him half a million dollars. 

Whether the advertisement was for good or for bad, remains to be 
seen. 

Other people, again, think that Corbin was merely heralded, and 
that it was an advertisement for the Herald, and that the poor man 




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fell into a pit, and, indeed, fell pit-ifully, through an intrigue of the 
paper near Park How, and so near to any other roic ! that one of these 
glorious acquisitions of our time, a representative of the period of in- 
vention, a gentleman of leisure, better known as sensational reporter, 
came down upon Corbin like a vampire, etc. 

Be this as it may, a question of veracity has been raised be- 
tween the Hon. Corbin, the Hon. Reporter, and the Hon. Newspaper; 
they all can take an oath. We cannot discern who is li-able and who 
is reliable in this case. We can only draw conclusions; these are the 
following: 

Corbin, the swell, would have used more fluent and flowery lan- 
guage; his manifestations sounds more like the manufacture of the 
Herald reporter, who, no doubt, as a veteran manipulator, loaded the 
gun, placed it full cocked into the hands of C, gave him a push so as 
to discharge it, and so made C. seem to have done it all. This is pos- 
sible, but if C. is a man of honor, and has been caught, it is his busi- 
ness to confess it, and to come out with a flat denial and contradiction 
of the story, to state that the children are mixed up, and that the 
theatrical journalist — like Buttercup — has practiced baby farming on 
him, and that he, C, had merely to swallow the bitter cicp. Corbin 
has not withdrawn these statements, consequently Corbin, the reporter 
and the newspaper men are equally culpable ignoramuses. 

It exhibits that — 

Such a reporter is a nuisance. 

The man who answers him in his interview is a fool. 

And the paper that devotes its columns to unscrupulous sensational 
reports and ignoble themes is a humbug, making its living through 
nuisances and fools, having no self-respect and no due respect to the pub- 
lic, and must finally become a third-class paper for gossip. Being known 
already for its vacillating policy, and unreliable editorials, it only ex- 
ists as an advertising medium and obliged to use tricks for advertising 
itself. The Journal of Commerce but a few days ago brought a timely 
article against the display of subtlety by reporters and editors, pandering 
to a diseased public appetite for scandal; against that rubbish of which 
* the press ought to be purged, and against that love of exaggeration, in- 
vention and sensation, which is now the besetting sin of too many 
American journals. I quote the following; it states emphatically the 
true words: 

" Too much stress has always been laid on newspaper enterprise 
and too little on newspaper truth.'''' 

It is demanding the renaissance of the old-fashioned plan, and I am 
suggesting that that " vast institution," the press, and the Associated 
Press should free itself from Corbin's press associates, and that the edi- 
torial association should apply a safeguard to its honor and dignity. 



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There is a screw loose somewhere; our citizens will remember the 
false alarm and panic created by the very same paper printing a full 
page in large type about the escape of the wild beasts from the Cen- 
tral Park menagerie — tet loose upon the city — a shameful manoeuvre 
and advertisement, which ought to have been punished severely. 
This time the wild beasts are let loose upon the Jews. 

I recognize only and address myself only to the people and Ameri- 
can citizens, such as perform their duties and are worthy of the citi- 
zenship. It does not make any difference whether they are Jews or 
Catholics, Methodists or Episcopalians, Republicans or Democrats — 
Irish, English, Scotch, German or French. I have written this 
pamphlet for the Americans — not the Jews, not the Christians, not 
any class in particular. I have not only written it for Americans, 
but for humanity. 

It looks almost as if some hotel-keepers and tavern-keepers wanted 
to become noblemen, and to make new laws and amendments. 

~No. 1. ~Not responsible for boots and shoes and Jew-elrj. 

~No. 2. Responsible for the Jew. 

As if they were selling religion instead of calf's brains and other 
eatables. It is a noble calling, no doubt, and we know things are not 
always served well clone at those places. It will soon be fashionable 
for little hotel-keepers all around to advertise: 

" Bill of fare — no Jews." 

Mind, they cannot refuse Jews or Catholics, anyhow; it is only talk 
and a business blind, or blind business. So much the worse. It 
amounts practically to a vulgar trick, and a tendency to tamper with 
and show contempt for the law and constitution, for wmich they claim 
applause and sympathy. 

Although hosts, they reckon without the host who entertains all of 
us — the American People. 

. I prefer those hotel-keepers who have been cooks or managers, viz: 
practical men, to those who merely went into that business on the 
grounds of an investment. The latter do not understand it generally, 
and if they see a poor result, they do not ascribe it to their own work 
and fault, but to the — Jews. 

Do but look at those cavalier-restaurateurs, Ex-Judge Hilton and 
R. R. President Corbin? 

Give me a man from the people, for the people and through the 
people — no misplaced switches. 

The essential qualities for success with hotel-keepers are, I believe, 
good grace, courtesy, tact towards the public. 

R. R. President Corbin, has proved himself the inferior to any 
street car conductor, who has to deal with all classes of people and 
with a rougher element; who has not enjoyed the privileges which 



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Corbin did, but who discharges his duties better; who possesses more 
common sense, and sense of justice and civility, is more of a gentle- 
man, and would never raise such an issue! Suppose a conductor of a 
street car would not admit a person or turn him out because he is a Jew 
or a Catholic, he would be summarily dealt with, you all admit. Yet 
we hardly think such a thing possible at all. Why, fob justice' sake, 
should a man like Corbin not be treated the same way and in propor- 
tion to his standing and responsibility r , moke severely still f 

Because he has more money? Shame! Has it come to this 
point in a republic and under a democratic government, or in Ameri- 
can society? Then we need a revolution before an evolution — then let 
us abolish this assumed autocracy, this usurpation of a base money 
power, these oppressors of our dearest rights, and let us reduce them 
to a normal state. Are there two standards or measures for wrong- 
doing — one for the poor or hardworking man, and another for the rich 
man ? The railroad conductor is dismissed, and the railroad president 
is not forced to resign, but sustained by his affiliations; the pockets of 
the shareholders are too much interested and greedy to make a split. 
Find out the names of all these shareholders, and the opprobrium 
rests also upon them ! I propose to hold this outrage before the eyes 
of the public until the criminals have been punished. Some people 
from both sides are in favor of hushing the matter up, of burying the 
same — they are afraid or short-sighted. 

Bury it ? Yes, bury it alive ! 

The revival meetings of the Corbinist Hotel-keepers in the next 
season would take place from the mountain to the valley — to let it 
rest would be to submit to it, to endorse it, to leave it an open- 
question. Nobody can afford to do this. A guarantee is wanted 
against the easy re-occurrence of this offence ! A great many J ews do 
not care to ask it; well, I ask it, in the name of all orderly and law- 
abiding citizens. Nothing short of that will answer. 

Railroad presidents cannot dictate terms; the people do not forget 
that it was the doings of some railroad presidents to a great extent 
which culminated in the riots and bloodshed of 1877. 

Swell and mob are only two different denominations for one and the 
same thing. The extremes meet. The one imposes on people through 
arrogance and tricks, the other through brutal force. Both know only 
the law if it suits their purposes, both want privileges at the expense 
of other people. The one puts on, and the other is put out, vis a vis 
of the people. They both would join in persecutions. The one can 
not bear prosperity, the other can not bear adversity. The one is 
ornamental, the other the contrary, both are detrimental to society. 

The people of the United States do want 

(1) Law and not outlaw. 



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(2) Prominent men, but not fools and swells. "Wise men, but not 
wiseacres. 

(3) Reporters, but not contorters of events and adventurers, hav- 
ing nothing to lose. 

(4) A free press; freedom but not prostitution and pollution, and 
not ruffianism in press, as witnessed in the above case, and under 
another form just now in San Francisco, where the editors of the 
Chronicle will have a chronical cure. 

Attempts may be made from time to time, to throw society into 
confusion and disorder, prejudices may be conjured, wrongs may be 
committed, yet it is finally of no avail to the instigator, but I have 
faith in human nature, and hope that all true men will form a pha- 
lanx against perversion, intolerance and tyranny — still, we must- con- 
stantly work for this good purpose, — we must earn our bread, and we 
must earn our liberty : 

" Yet sometimes glimpses on my sight, 
Through present wrong, the eternal right; 
And, step by step, since time began, 
I see the steady gain of man." 



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A CELEBEATED CASE. 

Serio-comic- Manhattan- Breach- Corbin meditations. A bloodless icar 
about worthless blood in Coney Island. Historical facts and 
hysterical Jits about the firm of Corbin, Hilton, Levy & Co., the 
Jews and the United States. The phenomenon of a "white" Jew. 
A cure for Corbins and Sharks. Jews to the front. Inviting the 
foe to come to the open battlefield. American aristocracy {airy- 
stuck-crazy) versus the American people. The reed issue. The 
gauntlet taken up. 

Part I. — Personal Issues. Part II. — Religious Issues. Part 
III. — National Issues. 

There has been a great deal of cowardice displayed so far in the 
whole controversy about the so-called " Corbin Jew " question on both 
sides, nay, on all sides, and there are three, viz. : 

(1) Would -be- Judge Corbin, of unknown celebrity. 

(2) The Jewish nation, of ancient celebrity. 

(3) The general public, of a modern and model republic. 

I am not fond of side issues; I meet the foe openly, not as a Jew, 
not as a Christian, not as a freethinker, but as a man and like a man, 
I am not passionate, because my feeling toward narrow-minded men is 
more that of pity and contempt than anything else; but I defend and 
insist upon upholding the rights of men, and an attack in this direc- 
tion: 

(1) In the Nineteenth century, 

(2) In a free country, 

(3) Emanating from parties who had a chance to do something for 
their education, not forcibly kept in ignorance through poverty, alas! 
is a threefold anomaly and wrong. 

Let us try to find out the root of the evil, and begin by 

Part No. 1 — Corbin, 

Who rules the waves and waives the rules at Manhattan Beach, at 
least attempts to do so. 

I cannot discover any biography of his in any paper or periodical, 
and yet this would be important to possess, in order to get a fair idea 
of the originator of a scandal, the trustworthiness of the source, the 
genius of the expounder — to see what he has done for suffering human- 



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ity and what constitutes Mm an expert, authority, apostle, or judge. 
Then only we have a fair criterion and know to whom we give the 
honor of an explanation or a lesson. 

Happily for Grant he is no brother-in-law of the ex-president, as 
was at first reported. It could have been surmised, for otherwise he 
would have learned from him the wisdom — to keep silent — and because 
he would only have reason to proclaim highly liberal ideas in consider- 
ation of the grand reception and tokens of friendship and hospitality 
tendered to the ex-president by all nations and religions. Corbin 
is no brother-in-law to XT, & 3 but he is a bother-in-law to the Un ited 
States. 

I understand he is a banker. I do not know at what discount to 
take his notes and statements. There are banks and banks — and even 
sandbanks closely connected with the seashore. I understand he is a 
president of a local railroad, so was Fisk. He is the proprietor of a 
hotel, so was Fisk, and he hired an orchestra and Levy — so did Fisk, 
if I am not mistaken; that is to say, these functions or qualities do 
not make him one farthing better than any ordinary man. It is not 
the office that makes the man, but the man must be an honor to the 
office ; and does Corbin fulfill this condition ? Xo. 

The railroad, as common carrier, cannot discriminate. The hotel, as a 
public house, cannot discriminate. As a hotel keeper, Corbin has a right 
to refuse admittance to disorderly people, same as private men have ; 
but not to exclude Irishmen, Germans, Jews, Cubans, etc. I go even 
further; he has the privilege to look out for his interest and take such 
customers by preference as pay him best in the end. He can do so by 
a hundred different and decent ways ; he may state his prices, and the 
vacant rooms to each applicant as he pleases, he may make different 
conditions as he deems judicious, this answers the purpose fully and 
protects him, and under the cover of such protection, lie may even sat- 
isfy all his prejudices and grudges. But here his privilege ends, and if 
he unnecessarily and wilfully commits an offence against a whole class 
of people — an act of mighty bad taste to say the least — then he has to 
take the consequences. 

He does so merely for one of the following reasons : 

1. To gain popularity with a few prejudiced minds, whose society 
or patronage he courts and flatters meanly — not manly — then he is a 
liypocrite 

Or, 2. To make a cheap monster advertisement at other's expense — 
then he is a reckless, unprincipled business man. 

Or, 3. To make a hero out of himself and gain notoriety, like a, fool — 
like the fool who burned the Temple of Ephesus in olden times — like a 
fellow who cannot do so on the grounds of real merit. TThy, some par- 
ties commit even murder to be spoken of. Corbin does it in an appa- 



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rently safer and more cowardly way — he murders the reputation of 
his neighbors. 

I leave him now the choice between these three possible causes of 
insane behaviour. 

Little -Levy, the blower, has been away for a week from the heav- 
enly or heathenly shore, stating he had a sore lip. Corbin evidently 
suffers from the same complaint in his expostulations, and this is not 
the only sore part about him. 

Levy says he is only a blower, and don't care about the rest. Well, 
I believe the good Jews do not claim him, but I read once that some 
good Christians have good claims upon him or against him. tem- 
poral o mores ! 

When the affair with ex- judge Hilton happened, I made a bad joke, 
viz: 

Paradise lost, by 3ii7-ton, was a success — it is immor-tal — yet he was 
blind. But Paradise lost, by JHU-ton (the Saratoga Hotel for the Jews), 
has not been a success — is immor-aZ — but the poor fellow is also blind. 
Let us pity him ! 

In Hilton's case, however, there seems to have been a personal quar- 
rel at the bottom of it, while in Corbin's case it was entirely unpro- 
voked, and has a different aspect. 

Manhattan Beach being & popular place of resort — more calculated 
for the masses than for a few privileged people, and especially wel- 
come on this account — giving the hard-working and the middle classes 
a well-earned and much longed-for occasion for health, rest and enjoy- 
ment, right between the hours of toil — mentally or bodily — it is a real 
republican institution. It was built up under these pretenses, and all 
the arrangements show that it was destined for this purpose. 

Manhattan Beach was a necessity, not a luxury. The people of New 
York went there willingly and gladly ; did not stay away from there, 
but right the contrary, increasing all the time ; consequently the peo- 
ple did not complain about the Jews, and tcere satisfied, and neither had 
the proprietor a right or any reason for doing so. His business was 
prosperous. He has, besides, forces enough on hand to see to it that 
order and comfort do prevail. 

His business was to please the people, but he wants the people to 
please him, and to dictate unwarranted and uncalled-for rules. He 
found out things quite alone for himself, with a microscope, and wants 
to make others believe them — imaginary fears and grievances — fight- 
ing windmills a la Don Quixote; he creates hostilities, and the dis- 
grace and loss will fall back upon him. 

The big man Corbin, in his race question stated, according to his 
trainer, the Herald, the following sentence: 

"They are driving away the class of people, who are beginning to 



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make Coney Island the most fashionable and magnificent watering 
place in the world." 
And then again: 

"We cannot bring the highest social element to Manhattan Beach 
if the Jews persist in coming." 

Corbin is ambitious and for this passion Csesar was slain. Mark 
ye, people of New York, Corbin invites and solicits the custom of the 
highest social element, to manufacture the most fashionable W. C. 
(water coterie). He does not want people who work for their living, 
workingmen, retailers, etc. You are all meant by it! for Corbin wants 
the H. S. — highest social {humbug shame) element. Will it come to 
him ? Never — surely never — the highest social element moves in other 
waters, has his own cottages and conveniences, does not board at Man- 
hattan Beach, but at hotels of old standing and seeking its level — this 
if he means by it the rich and influential families of old standing. He 
can get well dressed gamblers, dandies and spendthrifts, living on in- 
heritances, by which he wants to represent the H. S. element. He 
could have some good people, not claiming to belong to the category 
of H. S. element, though, and who were, until recently, installed in his 
hotel, but those he is ?iot fishing for. Therefore he is in a nice di- 
lemma ; he does not want what he has but he cannot get what he 
wants and he is off with the old love before he's on with the new, and 
will have neither one nor the other by-and-by, as natural consequence 
of his stupidity. He anticipated; his programme came out too soon. 
Corbin cannot force the issue and even if he baptizes his Hotel as the 
only "exclusive" corner of the world, this does not make it so, facts 
must show. To be exclusive is nice enough, if it comes natural and 
means that a gentleman is careful in the selection of his surroundings, 
by instinct, habit or education. If it is put on, however, and cooked 
artificially, and pretends to be a merit for itself, then it becomes a 
weakness, vanity, a shallow endeavor to shine, a vice and a fraud. 
Fools are exclusive in lunatic asylums, criminals are exclusive in the 
prison, and dangerous animals in cages, very exclusive; everybody but 
their keepers lets them alone. 

Consistency, thou art a jew-el, and this is why Corbin does not like 
thee — for, oh wonders will you never cease ? — the advertisements of his 
place, of the most fashionable place, can be found in all sample and 
lunch rooms, liquor stores, and saloons of all kinds — all for the se- 
lect few and to meet the eyes of the H. S. element. Who can ex- 
plain me this ? Even in idiocy we can generally detect a method, but 
here the business diplomacy of Mr. Corbin taxes my brains too much. 
It remains a conundrum. No. 1. He wants the highest social element 
and advertises in places where it is never seen. No. 2. The Jews have 
been good customers of his and he does not want them. 



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He knows only one "white" Jew, Mr. Corbin does. What in 
heaven's name or shame is a white Jew ? I know what a black-mailer 
or a black-guard or a black-leg is, or a black Friday, Mr. Corbin, and 
perhaps you do? I know what a greenhorn in society life means, or a 
yellow fever — gold aristocracy (a real pest). You may know one day 
what a blue nose or a black eye means. I know what a green-hack is, 
but a white Jew — I never met one in my life. I must inquire of a 
blue-stocYmg. A w-w-w-white Jew, I cannot conceive, God bless 
you, nor was there ever any white Jew conceived to my knowledge. 
A kingdom for a white Jew! I know that under a certain administra- 
tion, and I hope you grant it, the whole cabinet had to be white- 
washed, although, or because, no colored men or Jews were in it, quite 
a miracle! I like white-fish pretty well; I wonder whether you will 
digest your white Jew as well as I do whitefish? Well, I must adver- 
tise for a white Jew! 

"When the reporters asked you for a definition, you began to 
retreat; in maintaining your assertion, you went backward, whistling 
silly airs; you said you did not mean the religion; there were respecta- 
ble Jews and vulgar Jews, same as Christians, and so on. 

This was the worst cowardice, and this is the shabby policy which 
all heroes of your stock and calibre pursue; you cannot make specific 
charges against this or that party, or attack them on a solid ground, 
your reports being based on a falsehood. You want to evade and 
avoid it ? consequently, and go a roundabout way to utter general re- 
marks, glittering generalities, prejudices, unproved accusations against 
a whole people at random, which hit at nobody in particular, so that 
nobody should hit you. and which certainly will not have any effect 
on those whom it really concerns, if there are any; but instead of it, 
reflect on innocent parties and honorable people. 

This is too cheap. Take it up like a man, if you once venture on 
such slippery ground, not like a boy, shifting responsibilities. 

Are there guilty parties f Show them up, turn them out, establish 
stringent rules, stand by the consequences and give us facts ! Every 
decent citizen will assist you in such efforts. 

Why do you let them escape? That famous order was: "Let no 
guilty man escape ! " 

Why do you turn against the Jews like a wild beast? There is 
such a thing even as training savage beasts! You are bigoted, nar- 
row-minded, cowardly. Specify your foes, and if you do not, let the 
Jews compel you to do so or make you shut up. (This belongs to an- 
other chapter, which I discuss hereafter.) It is against the spirit of 
the age and nation, and the tradition of all great men which this con- 
tinent produced; they would thank you little for it, for reversing the 
engine of progress. 



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Washington, Franklin, Peabody, William Lloyd Garrison — 
None of them R. R. Presidents, but all of them honest, good peo- 
ple. 

You, sir, speak of want of considerations toward others, which the 
Jews lack? 

This is the old dodge of thieves to halloo themselves: "Catch the 
thief." How can you dare to speak of considerations for others when 
you make at the same time a vulgar attack and insult over 50,000 New 
Yorkers, and nearly one million of the American people, and stab 
them in the back treacherously without any reason whatever? 

You have queer ideas about consideration for others. This is rather 
a one-sided affair; with the same offensive breath with which you try 
to vindicate your rights you tread upon those of other people wilfully 
and maliciously. Probably you expect some "considerations" for 
this outrage from " some " quarters, and those are the considerations 
you take! 

Suppose somebody would ill behave and we call him a " Corbin " 
•because just one Corbin evidently showed that he had no gentlemanly 
manners, how would " the Corbins " like it? Let us state after your ex- 
ample: 

" He is vulgar; he is a Corbin" 

And adopt these expressions in our vocabulary? 

Yet there would be infinitely less harm done as only concerning one 
family and your unhappy namesakes, while, in the other case, 100,000 
of different families from all civilized countries of the globe are in- 
cluded, for the simple reasons that they are all descendants from the 
same patriarchs, and trace their history back to the most ancient times, 
when a Corbin was not yet thought of, and that their religion was best 
shaped to adapt itself to all climes and ages, and survived innumerable 
other religions and races, defying the most fanatical persecutions and 
has stood its test. 

You only know one " white " Jew? If you mean nice, or good Jew 
by it, this is your own fault. Why did you associate with the lower 
classes? Why did you not get introduced into good Jewish families? 
If you behave well there is no objection to it; you are welcome, and 
they hate vulgarity, low high life and bad manners as much^as any of 
your sham moralists! There is, happily, an enlightened and a larger 
class of American Christians who come in contact with such families 
and appreciate it mutually. I wish you would, and could reform. 

The only lines to be drawn are: 

There are good and bad people in this world. 

There are educated and ignorant people in this world. 

Are you good? No. 



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Are you educated? No. 
Have you dollars and cents f 

I believe those represent with you the common sense f Will any- 
body set you a monument for the unfortunate movement you made? 
No; go and inquire of Edison and men of talent and worth how 
monuments can be raised! 

Your ])lace in this world will soon be taken and filled by another, 
when you depart, you omnipotent dwarf! 

You cannot tell in what position you may yet be placed in life, and 
you have acted unwisely, if to give yourself away, while you are sailing 
actively on the broad, deep, treacherous, unsettled and unsparing ocean 
of life, and may have to appeal any moment to the mercy or good 
sentiments and kindness of your fellow-men. 

Religion does not make or give honor to the man one particle — proof 
there are criminals amongst Christians, Jews, Mohammedans) but the 
man can be of honor to his religion, which you decidedly neglected. 
The Christians have not sent you forth as champion of their cause, and 
you cannot assume such a position without power of attorney. It 
would be a pity, indeed, if the Christians had to rely upon you. You 
belong to that class of men which has always done most injury to 
true religion, viz : to the kind which wants to make money out of re- 
ligion, and use the holy and sincere feelings of others for unholy and 
insincere purposes. This is at the bottom of your present blunder 
and plan. Your religion is your business alone — that means, it con- 
concerns you only — but your business ought to be your religion, and 
religion is not worth a snap if business is made out of it or social 
advantages are sought for through its practice. 

The most striking feature and merits of the Christian religion are 
self-sacrifice and charity. Have you exercised them? Self-sacrifice is 
not consistent with R. R. monopolies, and charity, you have not even 
in your views, as your observations proved sufficiently. Are you a 
Christian in the true sense of the word? A Corbinized or carbonized 
Christian, perhaps? 

As far as the fine and acknowledged Al restaurants or hotels are 
concerned, I never heard that they lost through Jewish patronage, or 
that fault was found with such, for instance: 

Delmonico, the Fifth Avenue Hotel and the New York hotels in 
general. Are you on a higher standard, or have you such a record to 
boast of ? Those solicit nice customers, irrespective of creed or race, 
and they know how to guard themselves and keep %ip respectability with- 
out mean tricks, and that is just the difference between 

You and them! 

I tell you what was an outrage. Fisk having filled his hotel in Long 
Branch with the outcast of society — fancy women, in glory and splen- 



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dor, and noise and impudence — right amidst the wives and daughters 
of good people? John Morrissey, having had his gambling hell next 
door! Yet they were no Jews, no; like Corbin, Hilton & Co., they 
were all honorable men ! 

I tell you furthermore, if you were right, you must not throw 
stones at others while you live in a glass house, and are so far from 
being perfect yourself. 

There are other ways of adjusting it, more effective and proper, 
more respectable and refined. 

The Jews are known for the sacredness and happiness of home life. 
Some of your swells, according to the papers, are better known for 
destroying this sanctuary, by divorces, elopements, liaisons, etc. They 
can afford to say: 

Rather have public life brought home to us for improvement, 
than have our home life brought before the public in disgrace, and 
which, alas, cannot be improved! 

I close now this chapter for to-day. 

There is no provision in the Constitution of the United States 
which forbids a man to make a d—dfool of himself You have taken 
advantage of this omission. 

You have now become a big man through your talk, 



[ In your mind, in your mind! 



Yet I have reasons to suppose that in future you will keep your mouth 
well and perhaps your hotel well too, if you profit by my advice. In 
which hope I proceed to the next subject. 

Little Buttercup sings appropriately: Side remarks: 

Black sheep dwell in every fold, Amongst Jews and Christians. 

All that glitters is not gold; But has much brass. 

Storks turn out to be but logs, Good for bathing houses. 

Bulls are but inflated frogs. Did Buttercup know you, per- 



chance? 



Captain (puzzled): 



So they be, Or surely tlie Captain did ? 

Frequentlee. 

Is Don Quixote Corbin a statesman, or a scholar, or a preacher, or 
has he blue blood in his veins, to give him at least the pretence of right 
to proscribe and prescribe — for being so awfully clever and fastidious 
(fast-hideous), for sneering and smearing? Let him secure & copy- 
right, or at once invite all equally tuned hotel and innkeepers of the 
country to issue a manifesto now to join him, so that they do not feel 
tempted to make such a monster advertisement, each of them, in 
another season, for their own account. There may be a little fellow 



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and scarecrow tip the hill or down in the valley who will succeed and 
even supersede Corbin. I propose as prize question: 

" Who is the next jackass f " 

But Austin Corbin is and remains a bad resident, precedent and 
president — not of the Manhattan JBank, by the way, or it would soon 
be im-beached. Oust austere Austin ! 

To close the monthly account with Corbin — the past has shown* 
and the future will show what Corbin is and what the Jews are. 

His epitaph will read : 



Kind Words Never Die. 



HERE RESTS 

A. 0. 

(A Creature) 

A NOTORIOUS MAN", UNBELOVED 
BY ALL. 

what he has once wantonly 
and foolishly uttered, was 
like mad words written 
upon the sand of the 
ocean's shore ; 

the mad waves rolled by and 
blotted it out of existence, 
pity on him. 

he is now where we do not ex- 
pect to go to when we die. 

AMEN. 



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Part "No. 2. — Section A. 

The Position of the Jews. 

Cowhiding — The Hebrew Board of Delegates — Unity — The American 
Bathing Class — The Minority Question. 

The American maxim is : Help yourself. I abhor the trite sayings : 
it will die out — it is beneath our notice, etc. This is decidedly not so. 
The question is rather: Who will be next? Hilton, Corbin — the trio 
is not complete. There is a chance for somebody to step in. There 
are contagious diseases and the National Board of Health and healthy 
minds, ought to be on the lookout. The Jewophobia made its official 
appearance first two years ago in Saratoga, now it springs up again 
more widely spread, intense and unreasonable than ever before; it is 
on the increase. The ostrich buries his head in the sand when he is 
pursued by the enemy, and his plumage falls as an easy prey. It is 
an awkward bird. 

If a dog bites you, kick him; not as a point of honor, not because 
you recognize the dog as a fine gentleman, but because it is by no 
means agreeable to be bitten. 

If thieves or burglars make repeated attempts to enter into your 
premises, you guard against them, are on the lookout and meet them 
gracefully with bullets. If they are allowed to go on in their work 
undisturbedly, first they proceed boldly; secondly, it will encourage 
other thieves, it will even raise and make people to thieves. 

The moral is obvious, viz: Observe Polonius' advice to his son in 
Hamlet: " Beware of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in, bear it that 
the opposer may beware of thee.'''' 

At the time of the Hilton burlesque, I thought a good way of dis- 
posing of such outrages would be for the son of the gentleman against 
whom it was principally directed — to cowhide the ex-Judge, and I 
think yet if the attack is aimed at a whole people, that every one of 
them — who meets the miscreant — should give him a thrashing and 
mark him for lifetime, so that the good man can become a martyr for 
his cause, which ought to suit him first-rate. I mean if all other 
means should fail; I do not think it is against the law, it is certainly 
not against justice. The law may not decree it, but the law will ac- 
quiesce in it and the jury will acquit the executor. A young lady can- 
not meet her calumniator in a different way. Such slanderers are 
careful not to get caught and move between the narrow lines of law 



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and justice or law and right, and commit a wrong for which there is 
no legal punishment, and thus must their opponents do and meet them 
in a similar way. 

Had this same Corbin passed similar remarks against the Irishmen, 
this spirited nation would have marched probably "en masse" against 
Manhattan Beach, demolished the building, lynched the culprit and 
erected a temple of liberty there with the inscription: • 

Liberty — Fraternity — Equality. 

Surely they would have had mass meetings, denounced him and insisted 
upon the retraction of his villainous words. 

I cannot see why the Hebrew Board of Delegates should have ab- 
stained from more energetic action in this matter. 

It happened just to be in session at the time; it was opportune to 
act, not to be submissive and rest upon its dignity. It is more painful 
to witness a deliberate attack on the honor and good standing of a 
whole community in a civilized and free country, than even to behold 
the curtailing of rights and the confiscation of property in Roumania, 
done by barbarians; and both wrongs emanate from the same motive 
and savage breast — envy and bigotry — and one leads to the other 
eventually. 

This affront concerns the Jews as a class, as a whole, and nobody 
can exclude himself ; they ought to act as one man, and there ought to 
be only one voice about it, a perfect unison of all interests. There are no 
orthodox, liberal and emancipated Jews; no English, Portuguese or Ger- 
man Jews; there is only owe race, and in this respect only one indivisi- 
ble class and mass. Those who stand back ought to be ill-treated, 
and can afford to be despised. Let them rally under one standard, 
under the banner of the Stars and Stripes. 

They will then be a powerful body and respected, and not see black • 
guards step upon their toes or see — 

" A wolf in sheep's array 
Make a cheap display." 

Those will pause before daring an insult. Liberty is a precious gift 
which must be constantly watched and fought for, not be allowed to 
be infringed upon and to exist merely on gilt parchments. 
You will be treated accordingly. 

I do not believe in the words of the Bible, to tender your cheek if 
anybody pleases to slap you in the face, and to do good for bad. Who 
does ? The natural laws show the fallibility of this dogma. If a fellow 
kicks you and you kiss him for it or reward him, this is a premium 
given to kicks, and they will soon pour down on you so liberally that 
you will be knocked down and cannot kiss if you would. I am an adhe- 
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Show your teeth, give the devil his due, act so that the dastardly 
offense is never repeated again or hardly ever again, or is hardly ever 
a gain to the one who indulges in it. 

Give him a lesson for future reference, and Corbin even may give 
you in future the preference. 

Corbin & Co. are willing to use the Jews as a ladder, and after they 
reach a sufficient height they give it a kick, as illustrated so charm- 
ingly in Julius Caesar. 

Give us a lift and we will let you live as a gift. 

Over-ambition overreaching itself and base ingratitude, the worst 
of vices. 

Should it turn out, however, against expectation, that the American 
bathing class is all like Corbin and Hilton, then let the Jews stay away 
from them and remain home for a couple of years, the best place after 
all, or go to the much healthier rural places of recreation, or to the 
fine pleasure resorts in Europe, if they can afford it. The Corbins and 
fit associates will then soon have another scandal amongst themselves 
and without Jews. 

I believe the Jews would not take merely advantage of a law and 
go there, where they are but tolerated, but they will go to where they 
find congeniality, well-meaning and enlightened people, and where 
alone a true man can find real pleasure. 

There is a power even behind the American bathing class — that is, 
the American people, of which I am going to speak now. 

Corbin has not even been an original, he has aped Hilton. JVho will 
now ape Corbin ? This depends upon your action in the matter. 

Some J ews keep quiet, because they say " we belong to the mi- 
nority" This is true as far as religion is concerned, and has only 
significance for statistical purposes. It is not true otherwise in politi- 
cal and social rights. You are equals any time. Would you even 
belong to a minority, what then ? The Republicans may be in major- 
ity once and the Democrats in minority. Can the Republicans oust 
or ostracize the Democrats on this ground ? The minority has a right 
here, and this is the foundation and corner-stone of our government in 
contrast to despotical administrations. We may sometimes be proud 
to belong to a minority, if it is the one that behaves well, and if we 
are on the right side. The minority in this country is under the pro- 
tection of all; the Jews may come out without fear. England was 
ignored among the powers a few years ago, considered a third-class 
power, until the British lion roared and became ready for action. All at 
once it took its rank again as a first-class power, and the Russian bear 
withdrew its clumsy paws. Great Britain was not crumbling, but 
Russia was grumbling. People must not be too conservative and 
passive. Forward, march! 



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Part 2 — Section B. 

The Disposition of the Jews — The Policy of the Jews — Stoicism and 
Weak Defence so far — Criticism of Marks and Eaton — What is 
a Jew? — Where are the Jews f 

All that has been done by the Jews until now from their own ini- 
tiative, excluding the question and answer game of the reporters, is a 
sarcastic proclamation by Mr. Marks, and a book written by Mr. 
Herbert N. Eaton under the title: "An Hour with the American He- 
brew," mostly based on Hebrew statements. That is all, and that is 
nothing. 

Some Rabbis delivered a harangue, recording and lamenting the 
event. Three or four Reverends of the Christian pulpit in New York 
and Brooklyn came forward more explicitly and to the point. The 
loyal and manly Col. Ingersoll wrote a few hearty words. They call 
him Infidel; I think he is a Godly Infidel, inspired and inspirited. The 
press finally, almost unanimously, presented its condolence and conso- 
lations for the occasion, and so will they do the next time, no doubt; 
and if they kill them all, the press will bring a splendid obituary 
notice. It happened so that a large number of the Jews declared 
themselves satisfied, as the easiest way to dispose of the trouble — for 
the moment, perhaps, The Jews kept in the background, just where 
their antagonists wanted to drive them to, morally. Those are blind, 
indeed, who do not want to see, I cannot stand such humbug. It 
was the duty of the Christian preachers to reprobate the intolerance 
of Corbin. But the Christian preachers were not obliged to assume 
the Defense for the Jews, because the Christians had not been guilty 
of an Offense to the Jews ! What a sophism to have thought differ- 
ently ! Wherefore a defense by proxy if we are attacked ? 

The Jews have not been offended by a Christian — far from it; but by 
Corbin — a greedy, grasping, unscrupulous manipulator, who worships 
the almighty dollar; to whom no means are mean enough to attain 
his aim; who looks upon religion as a relic to be relinquished or rel- 
ished according to the bargain he can strike; in one word, a mock- 
Christian. The question is between Judaism and Shoddy ism— be- 
tween religion and jackasses. 

The satirical production of Mr. Marks did not answer the purpose. 
This is not an "eminent men " question; we must simply weigh man 
against man. 

It shows that there are not only white but also witty J ews ; and it 
teaches the hoodlum snobs somethiDg new, viz., that great men be- 
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were, or any other great men ? They know great sportsmen, pedes- 
trians and pugilists, that is all. I wish to weigh the subject on a 
broader scale. Those great men belong to the whole — to mankind — 
not only to the Jews. 

Greatness and genius belong to mankind; lowliness and baseness to 
its owner only individually and to an animal or beastly nature. To 
extirpate it is again the duty of all. There is many a nasty man who 
is a Jew, and there is many a great man who is a J ew. What of that? 
The Jew means a religious sect, not the generation of good or bad, 
great or small, and as the Jew is likewise a human being, he can be 
good or bad, great or small, and is endowed with the same faculties 
and passions as men commonly are. Jews or Christians, doing their 
duty as men, are good men; and Jews or Christians failing to do so 
are bad men, who must be reminded of it, improved, reformed as 
kindly as possible. As long as the heart is good there is hope; or, 
more correctly, as long as the nature is good, for the heart is merely 
an organ, with its peculiar functions, like the stomach, etc. The Cre- 
ator or nature did not make any difference between the Jew and 
Christian which could be turned to profit by sharpers, not even in 
color; how can the unnatural Corbin make it ? Is he sorry that the 
Jews are a white people, and not black — not only one white Jew, but 
all white. The words Christian and Jew are, by themselves, no stand- 
ard for character, integrity, goodness, greatness; they indicate simply 
a persuasion; each man must acquire and aspire for and deserve these 
qualities for himself through his own exertions, otherwise it would be 
made too easy, and we could do all the bad we want because we are 
Christians, if that means " good men," and all the good we do would 
be of no account because we are Jews — " synonomous with bad men." 
Religion would be a screen to vice. Your reputation cannot be essen- 
tially injured except by your own acts. The act of others cannot 
belittle or disparage you; there are black sheep in every fold. This is 
no argument against you, just as little as it is an argument in your 
favor to enumerate scores of illustrious Jews in all branches and po- 
sitions. Mr. Corbin used the one policy, and Mr. Marks the other. 
Corbin counted all in but one. Mr. Marks counted but one or two in, 
not belonging to the Jews. Do not borrow your glory or shame. 
Ebb and tide are accessories; look at the compact volumes of water 
moving on eternally and filling their place in nature assigned to them 
and fulfilling their mission. It is not the Jews or Christians in the 
Penitentiary, nor those in the Academy of Science; not those under 
the scaffold nor those on the pinnacle; not those in the grave nor 
those to come, that you can judge them by. 

Mr. Eaton, again, in his book has written a eulogy on the Jews — 
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He begins this way: 

" From the earliest Bible history God has plainly indicated his 
chosen people in the Hebrew race." 

My friend, there is no chosen people; if the Jews are chosen for 
anything, it seems to be for persecution. Get rid of exploded theo- 
ries. 

He quotes Henry Ward Beecher's sermon, General Butler's speech, 
editorials of the New York Tribune, all favorable to. the Jews. I 
quote nothing. Men who require a good certificate of behaviour are 
generally not as they ought to be. I treat it on the merits of the case 
alone. I refer to the natural laws, to the social laws, to the Constitu- 
tion of man and of our States, and I ask then: " Are the Jews — that 
means the adherents of the Jewish religion — a law-abiding people?" 
and I answer: "Why should they not be, as well as members of other 
religions." In what instance are they not law-abiding? Is the Jewish 
religion against law ? If not, how can a Jew be against law ? Impos- 
sible. Any man may act unlawfully or wrongly, and any such man 
may be a Jew or a Christian; but it is not then the Jew or the Chris* \ 
tian that trespasses: it is the man. Must I prove that I am all right, 
before anybody else proves that I am all wrong ? Who proved, or 
who can prove, that the Jews are not law-abiding; and if they are law- 
abiding, who can make or suggest an exemption of law for them ? A 
hotelist ? Hardly ever! 

Mr. Eaton, the American, then proceeds to speak about the Jewess 
in preference to the American (?) icoman, I like them both equally 
well; the question is: do they like me? I like them most if the char- 
acteristics of a certain race, nationality or religion disappear; if they 
unite the redeeming qualities of both; if they lose peculiarities and 
gain acknowledged advantages; if they are not a Jewess, not an 
American woman, but plainly a woman — a plain, good woman — a lady 
in the perfect sense of the word. I would despair of a millenium with 
Hilton, and even another centennial with the dead- weight of a Corbin, 
if it were not for the fair and kind sex! 

No more chosen people, no more chosen defenders, no more chosen 
women, except through personal merit! I would not want to belong 
to a chosen people of seven millions, if the great bulk of hundreds of 
millions was not chosen and were less favored. Same as the doctrine 
of Hell. I would not care to rejoice in Paradise with a few people 
and to know that millions are damned and condemned to suffer etern- 
ally — infernally! 

" What is a Jew? " The denomination of Jew has only reference 
to the religion, nothing else; and even there it applies more to the 
origin of that religion and the history of a people, than to their re- 
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and the records of science. Indeed, reformed Judaism is the same as 
higher Christianity. 

The term " Jew " designates only the religious element — nothing 
else; same as Catholic does not mean a hotel guest of a peculiar habit, 
J«w does not. It is an impiety and gross want of principle to misap- 
ply or ridicule these theological or religious terms, and a true Ameri- 
can has too much respect for religion to do so. Corbin cannot plead 
the Baby Act. If there were a million Jews in the United States, and 
even nine-tenths of them should be guilty of a certain fault, it would 
be a gross error to let out his wrath on " the Jews" this including the 
whole million. 

There are certain terms used by ignoramuses and vulgar minds, 
with an implied incendiary meaning, as a sort of nickname, for 
instance: 

Irishmen, Jew, Dutchmen, Yankees, niggers, theatrical people, etc. 

An educated man will beware of making such applications, foster- 
ing prejudices of the worst kind. I may style this method of speak- 
ing as " CHOICE SLANG." 

Whoever has seen " Caste " produced on the stage, will know the 
mischief and harm done by these self-created distinctions and un- 
natural barriers. Such distinctions should only be seen in " The FooVs 
Revenge" 

To the Jews I recommend to practise more self-respect; do your 
duty, keep your head up high, as high as any living man is allowed 
to ; never mind if there are some undesirable fellows amongst you — 
try to elevate them — as long as you are not one of them, it does not 
concern you. Talk with more self-respect amongst yourselves, and it 
will have its blessed influence. Know how to defend your rights, and 
if you are no J ew by heart or conviction, think that your parents, 
■ your relatives, and perhaps your friends were or are all Jews, and that 
you cannot let them or their memory be vilified, if you are men and 
manly. 

Another piece of good advice ! Mingle more freely with Christian 
society; learn from each other, and have in view to please each other. 

If there is a prejudice against Jews in some quarters, it is rather 
because they do not know the Jews well enough than because they 
know the Jews too well. The Jews keep too much amongst them- 
selves. 

Most Americans do not know at all what a Jew is, or rather who is 
a Jew. They oftentimes talk to a Jew about a Jew, thinking he could 
not be one. Except those of the most striking Oriental type, if I 
would put them among one another with American Christians, they 
could not pick them out. 

Where are the Jews, the great Jews? 



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I do not want to see them on the paper or proclamation. I want 
reality; they must show themselves in an emergency, and not keep 
back — not wisely, but too well. Where are those prominent men in 
law and press, in thought and speech, with capital and influence, to go 
together and act together? Is there none who will devote his time, 
energy, or other useful qualities, for this noble purpose, and who will 
proceed dauntlessly and firmly, unbiased and unmoved by selfish con- 
siderations, and equal to the task? This is the hour to come forward. 
Where is Professor Felix Adler, who could speak and write both on 
behalf of the Jews and the Christians? He is remarkably quiet, as if 
he was with Frothingham across the water. 

Are they ashamed, afraid? Was the watchword given, "silence;" 
by whom and what for? The silence of the tomb or of the doom! 

Rise up, rise up, rise, and your rise will be the decline of your 
enemy. It is an acknowledged fact that you are in the right, but in 
our days it is not yet everything to be right. People must know how 
to defend their right, or lose their independence. Take this warning 
from history; forward, march! 

Part No. 2. — Section C. 

Hints for Punishment and Reform of the Guilty Parties — Our 
Laws — A New Paper — The Opinion of an Old Abolitionist — 
Antidotes and Anecdotes, 

There must be a redress for wrong; if not by law it will be by 
other avenues and outlets; therefore it is better to have new laws 
made for such cases as are not sufficiently covered by the old law. 
This is preferable to outlaw. Take the California shooting. De 
Young and Rev. Kalloch, both of the H. S. (hoodlum seashore) ele- 
ment, and using such vile epithets that a gentleman must be ashamed 
to read it. No sympathy for either of them! What do they plead? 
De Young says: 

" There was no law that would reach the matter." 

His brother says: 

" My brother simply did what any man would do who had a spark 
of manhood." 

The Chronicle says: 

" Let those who are disposed to indulge in harsh judgment in this 
case make it their own. Let them consider what they would them- 
selves have been impelled to do, had," etc. 

There must be a law that reaches the matter — that reaches any 
matter; it must be made, and it is sadly needed. We must have a law 
against slander and blackmailing, and a practical law, too, or shooting 
will be the law. 



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" To shoot, or to be shot, that is the question." 

" Let there be established a Court of Hoxor, with citizens of un- 
doubted standing acting as judges for lifetime, with fixed laws and 
regulations, and with a certain jurisdiction, and, for mercy's sake, with- 
out lawyers. The people will make its complaints there with confi- 
dence, and the most secret and sacred matters may be brought before 
its forum and disposed of justly; perfect discretion secured, the press 
not admitted. This idea suggests itself to me while writing, and I ad- 
vocate it. What is the good of fighting ? The wrong man may be 
killed — I mean the man who is in the right; and, worse yet, the papers 
get hold of the matter and the greatest possible publicity is attained 
while you were risking your life to silence one man who can only vilify 
you in a limited circle. A great many misunderstandings will be 
cleared, crimes will be prevented or punished, the greatest evils cured, 
and, before all, innocent parties icill be "rehabilite" reinstated and 
vindicated! There is a protection and law against the loafer who 
attacks us at the street corner and robs our purse. There ought to be 
the same at least against the fiend and coward who robs us of our honor 
individually, and against the felon who attacks the people collectively 
like an assassin. It must come to that. 

The moment when J. H., the Jew Hater, or Judge Hilton, passed 
injurious remarks against a people it was the business of such people 
and all its friends, and of all liberal people, to have a bill introduced 
in the Souse to the effect of putting a severe penalty on such crimes, 
appertaining to the class of conspiracy, offense of a people represented 
amongst us and in the process of amalgamation with our nation, disturb- 
ance of peace amongst our own citizens, evasion of the civil rights 
bill, &c. Anyhow, at least to summon him before a committee (in 
absence of a Court of Honor to be selected by all citizens), charge 
him with these points, so that he will be censured and stigmatized. 

The Jews may form a propaganda for the salutary effect of not 
buying any more or subscribing to suspicious newspapers, nor dealing 
with anybody who sides with Corbin and his satellites, but to oppose 
all of them in politics and private enterprises as much as can be done 
by lawful means, and a powerful league all through the States. They 
should have called long ago for mass meetings and subscriptions for 
all these purposes. 

(a) The Press. A newspaper must be started for the people on 
shares by capitalists, or with a subsidy, and an immense circulation 
must be secured — even gratuitously for some time — so as to become 
the most important advertising medium. A journal that takes a firm 
stand against all Corbinists — and there are Corbinists and usurpers in 
all branches and directions, not only amongst railroad presidents and 
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There are Corbinists in the court, where you can oftentimes die 
before your case comes on (consumption case) and if you do not, you 
can die from disgust while it goes on. There are Corbinists in financial 
life — the usurers — and in political economy, they want to starve the 
poor laborers and keep the workingmen down. Corbinists all over. 
The new paper would have the mission to purify the air — like light- 
ning and thunder — it may make noise, it may kill, but it does good. 
All victims of injustice and intolerance shall find a refuge under its 
heading. 

1 have been ashed to undertake this enterprise by friends, and call 
the paper " Constitntion," or "Liberty," or " Independence P The 
plan is under consideration. 1 will ~be pleased to receive any sugges- 
tion for its promotion. 

(b) Politics. Scrutinize the nominees, the electors, the primaries, 
the agitators, watch the whole complex machine of the most simple 
government. 

Belong to that party who will stop Corbinism, and if both parties 
have it on their platform, join the one that means earnestly to do it, 
has proved so and to which Corbin, Hilton & Co. do not belong. You 
are a political power and together with your friends and influence you 
may control one million votes. 

Take the ballot as bullet, fight with equal weapons in press and 
politics. Take more active part in these branches. 

(c) Rival Hotels well conducted and Bathing Places. 

You can easily organize this project and hurt Corbin in his religion 
of dollars and cents and his ideal of millions. 

I heard of some movements in progress for next season, which will 
not benefit Corbin, but which are connected with more difficulties than 
the above straightforward plan, and which I am not allowed to men- 
tion. 

Go for Corbin, let him be ousted from his lofty position in Man- 
hattan Beach, have a pressure exercised to that effect, make it hot for 
him; he has his vulnerable spot, rely upon it. Stop your pilgrimages, 
desert his regions and leave him behind. Honest people will discard 
him. The shares will stop paying dividends and the shareholders be 
compelled after all to make a change. 

I read there was one Jew, Mr. Myers, amongst the shareholders. 
Does he remain in this connection ? Any Jew who should go to the 
Manhattan Beach Hotel is to be declared actually one of the kind 
which Corbin described. For. one reason I make an exception ; this is, 
they should have a test case first before the courts of Corbin's refusal, 
if Corbin has courage enough to act as he talked, and if no perjury is 
committed. After this has been settled, they should all stay away. 
This ought to have been tried right at the start. 



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/ will furnish to prominent capitalists 100,000 copies of this 
pamphlet for one-half the price, $5,000 ; and they can distribute them 
all through the country as they deem fit, and thus it will, at the least 
calculation, bi brought before one million of the right kind ^of people. 
They may also control the sale and receive their investment back. 

Spread it also amongst all employees of Corbin in the railroad and 
hotel, and if ever they have a serious complaint against the man, let 
them come forward, they will find assistance. 

Some merchants asked me, " what can we do against him, he has no 
dry goods store ?" I say there are hundreds of ways and means ; we 
want a solid organization, a committee of ways and means. The 
pen is mightier than the sword. I have now laid before you quite^an 
assortment of proposals. Take your choice and pay your money. 
You have no excuse unless you are a miser or a man who ought to be 
abused. 

There are little things to be done too. 

Issue witty caricatures of these choice and master spirits of the age, 
compose and write a naughty, nautical comic opera and the like, this 
would pay. 

The cartoons would sell, the opera text-book would sell, the opera 
seats would sell, and Corbin even would be sold. 

Recapitulation: Observe the law, have new laws brought in, 
start a paper, a new watering place and hotels, be lively in politics, 
organize yourself, try to have a test case, give this pamphlet the widest 
circulation, forsake the Beach, ridicule him, watch your opportunities; 
and if all this should be of little avail, I do not say cowhide him, but 
I feel very much like it. 

The right man in the right place, 
The swell Corbin with a swollen face. 

Work for universal education, work hard for it, and it will be 
hard to find a Corbin in the next generation ; it will bear its fruits. Cor- 
bin can only prosper in darkness and obscurity. 

Become more Americanized, identify your interests with the com- 
mon good. Be J ews in your religion and in your opposition to intol- 
erance, and for the free exercise of your rights — this is all right — but 
nothing else; be noexclusives in social life or customs or business mat- 
ters or civil affairs. 

Be not only a $-and-cents man — the great error now-a-days in 
America — but think occasionally of an ideal besides the real. It makes 
a man better. 

Obscene literature is punished severely; is there anything more ob- 
scene than that man Corbin's maniac utterances in the Herald? Corn- 
stock protects virtue, Bergh the animals, who protects mankind from 
these vultures ? The American Eagle ! 



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One of the two things — no middle way possible. 
Is there a religious war ? No. 

Is there no religious war ? Then let us exterminate those who raise 
such issues, and who have no right of existence and who are a pesti- 
lence in the air. 

The opinion of an American Christian and an old Abolitionist, in 
Pittsburgh, two weeks ago, in conversation with the author : " Be sure 
we old abolitionists — say 30,000 in number — would march in compact 
columns against the enemy of the Constitution, who discriminates in 
religion about Jews, etc. — the same issue is involved as in the slavery 
question — as in all questions pertaining to oppression and prejudices, 
and to be crushed out of existence. This danger is universal and not 
confined to a special class, it concerns us all. I would also never buy 
one cent's worth from Stewart (Hilton)." 

If Corbin is a church member he ought to be expelled, same as a 
drunkard from a temperance society. For says the church: 

a Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." 

Let me finish this chapter of punishment by punishing my readers 
with a few jokes : 

Is Corbin a Hebrew ? 

Sure. He-brew the scandal. 

What is Corbin obliged to do ? 

He must face the music in Manh. Beach. 

Why would there not be one white Jew, if Corbin was a Jew ? 
Because the Jews would all feel blue. 

Some people are elevated in their ideas, some railroads are elevated. 
Why is not Corbin elevated, why are his railroads not elevated, why 
are they slow coaches ? 

Because he don't want any "rabbi transit." 

To be continued in Puck. 
Last, but not least: 



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Part No. 3. i 
A few Words about and to the Public and Republic. 

Why do we all like and love this country ? Because there are 
Corbin's and Hilton's in it ? No, I mean, notwithstanding that there 
should be such men in it, who put themselves forward as representa- 
tives of society, not society in general even, but of watering-places- 
coteries, and who are mere bubbles rising for a little while, and then 
disappearing — vain vanity! 

We adore this country on account of its free institutions, of its 
liberty, liberality, freedom of speech and press, absence of military 
despotism, its principles of equal rights and duties, its abolition of 
slavery; in short, for the wonderful programme set forth in the De- 
claration of Independence, because we can be independent, and be- 
cause, whenever reaction threatens to appear, through corrupt or 
selfish motives, the common sense of the people at large makes a bold 
stand, ,put its foot on it and crushes the venomous reptile, and invari. 
ably gains a victory of peace, having its laurels of more glory than 
those of bloody war!. Proofs in our days: 

The Alabama settlement by arbitration, the peaceful issue of the 
presidential contest in 1876, the suppression of the inflation policy 
and of the Chinese bill. 

There is one danger for the Republic: a clique of parvenues — up- 
starts — shoddyists — formed itself in our midst, copying foreign cus- 
toms, trying to establish an aristocracy in a Republic, without, how- 
ever, rendering signal services to the country and distinguishing them- 
selves, as most of the European aristocracy have done previously, and 
are yet doing to some extent, without the high culture and study and 
responsible positions incumbent on this class in Europe and not even 
of ancestral fame — bad copies and originals — plagiarism, monkeyism! 

They claim prerogatives and exclusive privileges, in consideration 
of which they furnish automatic puppets, the latest style from the 
tailor's shop, haughty airs, cold looks, a form without contents, a 
vacuum, a vague self and mutual adoration, arrogance and — nothing. 
That is all. 

It is this same class that tries so hard to be introduced and tolerated 
at foreign courts, when abroad, and that is bothering the life out of 
the poor princes and dukes visiting our shores. It is this class which 
the Duke of Argyle — a sensible man — was shunning like the pest on 



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his recent tour to America, and which cannot have admittance in the 
best circles after all. 

Men of real merit — Longfellow, Wm. Cullen Bryant, Horace 
Greeley, Professor Morse, Peter Cooper, Bayard Taylor — do not be- 
long to this class; they figure as our representative men. 

Our snobs want to have and be dukes and counts in this country. 
I doubt very much if even we adopted those mediaeval distinctions 
whether they would find dupes to make them dukes, and whether they 
would be " counted in" as counts? Let them in the meantime find 
consolation in the fact that we can boast of one count, -viz., Count 
Joannes, and quite a good sort of a man. 

There is only one nobility, that of the heart, and that they do not 
possess. 

The show and ostentation displayed in churches has driven the 
poor people away from them; they cannot afford to dress in silk and 
velvet, and diamonds, and drive in carriages to a place of worship, 
where they all appear before the Lord, and while the Saviour preached 
humility and humanity, and while hundreds of thousands of fellow 
citizens are suffering from want of daily bread. Are they not thought- 
less and uncharitable? 

All prejudices are manifested and fostered from this class; so we 
have read lately the cold shoulder which West Point cadets show to 
their worthy collegian because- he is a colored man ; yet we fought the 
war for the emancipation of this race, and allowed it to render service 
to the conntry; yet we speak of the tolerance of the [North. We 
have witnessed the anti-Chinese movement, only fifteen allowed to 
come at a time; they are afraid of sixteen. Why, "sweet sixteen" 
ought to be rather afraid of them; and now they make a crusade 
against the Jews when they appear amongst the few and selected in 
the watering and bumming places, and want to shove them right 
amongst the mass of the Christian people — sublime, self-sacrifice. 
Well, if they are a nuisance, rather let the few bear the burden than 
the many! 

You want to create sympathy for your noble work! 

A protest ought to be issued by the American people against the 
assumption of these upstarts, against these unconstitutional proceed- 
ings and this Knownothingism. 

'The preachers ought to thunder down from the pulpit against these 
unchristian feelings, and ought to advocate brotherly love. Some 
have uttered a protest; all of them should do it. 

The newspapers of all parties ought to show in their editorials that 
they like truth and justice before all, and have something dearer to 
them than the consideration of one party, viz., the defense of the bul- 
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The silence which some of them observed was cowardly and equiv- 
ocal. 

They ought to have taken the matter into their hands and provided 
for a remedy of some kind, and roused the public spirit to action. 
They ought to have rebuked that paper of benediction (or Bennet fic- 
tion) 

For having been so rash 
To bring this trash 
And turn it into cash ! 

But what would some papers with Sunday triple sheets do if it 
were not for that and lovely personals. If things do not ezist they 
must be invented, and a reporter in Fatinitza can do all that. 

The beauty of the thing is that the Herald knows more about 
other people's business than about its own, and the immaculate scrib- 
bler of the marble building writes with a cheek or naivete to be ad- 
mired, his own sentence of condemnation, in an editorial on the San 
Francisco scandal, on August 26th, 1879. Hear, hear: 

" and these men, whom California society seems to encourage 

and sustain, are, the one a journalist and the other two clergymen — 
members, that is to say, of two professions whose especial and sacred 
duty is to advocate moderation in life and language, decency, observ- 
ance of the laws, and imitation of the mild and Nameless life of Jesus." 

Hush or blush! Can the Herald blush? 

Vide for comparison — his novelty sensation: 

Reviving a Prejudice, July 22, 1879, and give me a definition of 
Hypocrites. 

Question A. 

Was that publication a proof of moderation in life and language, 
decency, observance of the law, and in the spirit of the Lord? 

Suppose that Corbin's firework went off by spontaneous combus- 
tion, and not by the electric wire of the Herald, does it change the 
matter ? 

Not a bit. A well regulated family is careful whom it receives 
within its circle, and a paper must use discretion and taste in the ac- 
ceptance and choice of its matter and contents, for which it is morally 
responsible; otherwise the houses become ill-reputed, and the papers 
ditto. If the license makes papers licentious, then it is time to step 
in and make certain provisions in th-e law to regulate them. It is 
a great and grave question to set a limit to the power of the press, and 
to define exactly where its usefulness ceases and its privileges end; 
but it must be done. An unprincipled paper is too dangerous. Why 
cannot the Herald be on the Pacific side ? 



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Question 3. 

The innocent Herald is startled at the performance of the Califor- 
nia editor; also a Young Editor. Why was he never as well posted 
about a certain New York affair, similar to this, when he did not enter 
quite so readily into the details of a spicy romance, if I remember 
right ? 

Chapter I., engagement; II., broken off; III., street fight and club- 
bing, without the aid of the police; IV., the duel; V., mystery and 
conjectures; VI., disappearance; VII., the return. The Herald made 
more fuss about the Jew affair in July than he did about the 
" genteel " affair — I guess it was then May — and when the tall news- 
man found more whip than whit, and was not treated unjustly, accord- 
ing to public opinion. 

Why was it hushed up by the authorities, and law not enforced in 
this case,4ike in any other, the duel ignored, etc.? What influences 
were prevailing ? Money can altogether buy too much and it seems a 
criminal offence to be without it — for then no help, you wander into 
prison without bail, and fail, for the least mistake. 

Has it come to this ? 

Let us shake off this insupportable yoke — our laws are good enough 
but a great many men in the office are bad enough. Cleanse the an- 
gean stables ! 

I hated politics, but I see it is a necessity, we must devote our at- 
tention to it, for it controls the management and execution of the law, 
it controls everything: business, private life, social life, and if we neg- 
lect it, we will be neglected. Therefore, good citizens, and good citi- 
zens only, should mind it in future and appear in the arena. 

The wronged parties must join and act in concert and harmony and 
secure peace and prosperity and happiness. Make other's complaints 
your own and they will make your complaints theirs. Unite. The 
J ews have capital enough, let them assist the real 

'Workingmart s Party, 

for co-operation, deliverance from grievances and good purposes. 
Give them a chance to work themselves up and to work prejudices 
down, ^fetter the conditions of the less fortunate classes and you will 
improve J^ur own. Corbinism will then hide its face. Does not the 
sun shine for all ? Must comfort in life be monopolized and not exist 
for the workingmen? Must a seashore resort be monopolized and not 
exist for the Jews ? 

The subject was but slightly treated by the newspaper. When 
you allow the enemy to remove the first stone from the temple of Lib- 
erty, there is no telling where we may land and when this will end. 



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Unless nipped in the bud it threatens to burst forth into a confla- 
gration. 

There is " weed and Tweed " amongst this crowd, to be eradicated. 
The motto of our nation is: 

"All for one and one for all." 

All for one, then come out and extinguish the fiend who spreads 
hate and discord! 

One for all, let not this one be Corbin, for heaven's sake! 

Beware, lest the next time a transgression may be brought nearer 
yet to your hearth. 

Let us have peace or let us have Corbin and — export him and our 
export business does -pay I 

The Jews are known to be peaceful citizens, the Corbins are not — 
there lies the danger! 

There are foreigners enlightened by and imbued with American 
ideas, and willing to give their life for the preservation of the Ameri- 
can institutions, and there are Americans (if we may call them so) im- 
bued with foreign ideas, who are intent on the ruin of republicanism. 
Let us get rid of them! 

Let us have an exodus of Corbins and Hiltons to a hotter place of 
sojourn, where no watering places are known, or if they stay here, let 
them behave and be taught that 

"The first condition of Liberty is not to infringe upon the liberty of 

others!" 

"Waves, sandlots and hoodlums come and go — they have no firm 
ground to rest on — but Liberty is immutable and immortal,* and 

"1^ Her We Trust!" 

Submitting this to the consideration of the public at large, I re- 
main, 

Most respectfully, 

PAUL ZUNZ. 



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A VERY PLAIN CONCLUSION. 

Answer to the Noble Anticommoxsexsecensueists. 

Judgment — Challenge. 

Know all men by these presents, that, if Austin Corbin stated ac- 
tually what the Herald reported about the Jews on July 22, 1879, I 
proclaim it to be false, defy him to prove his assertions, and unless he 
does so satisfactorily to the people, declare him to be a 

Idar, 

And, furthermore, a 

Coward, 

Because he made simply a sham attack and display. I challenge him 
to make a real attack and satisfy the people about his sincerity by pro- 
ceeding in either one or the other way, as follows: 

1. To call some individuals and representative Jews personally by 
the vile names he uttered so that they have a chance to act in defense, 
as a true American would do to his adversary. 

2. To expel any Jew from his hotel or railroad because he is a Jew 
and see what the Jews do about it. 

On the other hand, if the Herald did not report correctly, as Cor- 
bin claimed, then the Herald is a liar, but Corbin a coward neverthe- 
less, for not opposing a formal and plain contradiction. 

We have nothing to do with the reporter who is a nonentity and 
nullity. Principals are responsible for their agents and generally em. 
ploy just such men as are worthy of them. 

The Herald may be properly called the Scandal Paper, dragging 
forth dirty matters and' unhealthy filth and dumping it into our fine 
harbor of liberty and enlightenment, and filling it with intellectual gar- 
bage and ashes. 

I let the American people be the judge, and I hold the accusation 
over the head of the aforesaid party or parties until they have been 
sufficiently advertised and stigmatized, and have received the proper 
punishment. 

I am ready any time for further explanations. 

Corbin has tried to give a mortal blow to all what is dearest to the 
American people — 

" To the Constitution and liberty," 



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And has tried to hurt the Jews besides this in all what is dearest to 
them, 

" Their standing in this community," 

And without having been harmed by them. 

Corbin has tried to yell the war-whoop on account of religion; he 
has forfeited his rights to the title of American or American citizen. 
He will have remorse for what he has done, and he will not witness 
the day when his war cry will be taken up; it finds no echo in the 
•souls of the people; this is no favorable climate for it! Those who 
think like Corbin must emigrate. 

America can afford to live without the Manhattan Beach mush- 
room establishment, if it had never existed or if it all should be burned* 
down, but it cannot afford to live without Law, Liberty, Truth, Honor, 
Justice. It cannot afford to make Corbinist experiments — never — the 
air we inhale shall not be pestiferous! 

The life of man is as precarious as that of a fly. Peruse only the 
daily newspapers, and look at the accidents and crimes befalling us. 

In Memphis the yellow fever reigned; the other day an unpitiful 
storm raged in the very same regions, unroofing houses, upsetting the 
furniture, throwing the poor sufferers out of their bed and killing 
them. What, are we men ? What is life ? It depends on the whim 
of a lunatic, a drunkard, a burglar, a careless man ; on a bite we eat, 
on a drink we take, on a step we make, on the air we breathe, on the 
troubles and cares we have, on the storms and violence of nature; it 
hangs actually on a thread, and it is a wonder if a man reaches ma- 
turity of age, and a greater wonder if he attains old age. 

Why can we not assist each other, reduce our sufferings and 
partially remove our frailty and be happy or more happy, all of us ? 
Is there not room for all ? Are the United States too small ? 

Why do we hurt each other instead ? Why are there bad people? 
and why are there so many indifferent, selfish people? 

Why do suicides occur and men flee from our midst in terror and 
disgust. It is a standing accusation against the community. Does 
nobody lend a helping hand to a person in trouble, give good advice, 
assist, even if it be a fallen woman or a reckless man? Are there no 
kind souls? and do the cold bystanders expect to be measured by the 
same heartless scale when their day of Judgment is at hand? If any- 
body errs, make it good, do not make it bad. Let that what is dear- 
est to you, plead for mercy. Men who do not know or feel the duty 
and pleasure of philanthropy are brutes and breakwaters to general 
happiness. 

Are all the horrors true which are related in connection with the 
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We can all — and the most humble amongst us can — contribute to 
the general welfare and beauty of this Life, and be it but one grain. 
Do not even wait for the occasion, seek it. This must be the noble 
mission of women and their influence over men, who are more blind in 
passions and the pursuits of business. 

Those who are fond of living on a dunghill, in Manhattan Beach 
or elsewhere, should be isolated. 

I mean every word I say, and I say it was mean — very mean — to Mr. 
Corbin, Hilton, and the Herald. 

What would you have to fall back upon if your money-power was 
broken, and where would then be your hangers-on ? 

We read now about a corpse stolen from its last abode — about 
'cemetery troubles in Montreal and in New York — no peace to the dead, 
because the wicked people are not all dead. 

They may bury each on a different ground — Catholics, Jews, 
Protestants, Free Masons — or they may cremate them; yet they will 
all undergo the same transformations by the inexorable laws of nature ! 

To resume. There are dead-beats and bad deeds amongst Jews and 
non-Jews; if any difference, the bad Jews are not excelling the bad 
Gentiles. Am I correct if I define the characteristics of each, as fol- 
lows: 



The Nasty Jew versus The Nasty Gentile. 

Loud in speech and manners, 
Lively in gesticulations, 
Want of decorum. 



Eating unbecomingly. 
More parading with his defects. 
Shouting. 



Spitting and cursing. 
Chewing and ruffianly. 

Drinking beastly. 
More on the sly. 



Am I a good physiognomist or psychologist ? 

Corbin stated he wanted the place for a few privileged and select 
people, to the exclusion of the masses. He abhors poor people, the 
working-man and the middle classes. He wants bonanza men. It is 
a question of Corbin and his clique versus the people Corbin for the 
ornamental against the useful element in a great Republic. 

Corbin — for monopolies, prerogatives of shoddies, speaking in the 
name of unknown and unknowing people, in an unconstitutional sense, 
and spreading hatred, all to make money — the usurer and usurper! 

Corbin & Co. have intrigued; let them extricate themselves. It is 
not for the honest man to hush up. Corbin & Co. have conjured the 
evil spirit; let them banish it! 



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Like Horace Greeley, I address myself 

To 

The Generous, The Hopeful, The Loving, 
who trust 

That the errors, the crimes and the miseries 
which have long rendered Earth a Sell, 
shall yet be swallowed up and forgotten, 

in a far-exceeding and unmeasured reign of 
Truth, Purity, and Bliss. 

My banner shall always bear the inscription : 

"Pledged but to Truth, to Liberty and Law; 
" ISTo favor wins us and no fear shall awe." 



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APPENDIX. 

It is a matter of great regret that this wrong has been perpetrated 
by American natives, both two years ago and now, viz: Hilton and 
Corbin. It is a bad example for the foreigners. The Americans are 
the natural champions of the Constitution; those two men repudiate 
it. The vital interest of the American people is the consolidation of 
the various elements to one great entity and force; those two men 
create a split. The American nation invited emigration from abroad 
— those two men want to turn it out again. The nation confers its 
citizenship liberally and agrees to protect its citizens, and those two 
men open a warfare! These men get up and dishonor the sacred obli- 
gations for personal and selfish motives — in a republic whose greatest 
virtue is to engender law-abiding people — and belonging to a nation 
whose predominant feature is generosity and impartiality, and that 
has derived the greatest benefit and its reputation from all these insti- 
tutions. Should natives desecrate the memory of their forefathers? 
The Americans ought to disavow them. 

Who are those two men ? Leaders of the American people ? In 
politics or social life or science and arts ? By no means. They are 
se^-appointed and self-elected agents and tavern-keepers. The merits 
of the one are his inheritance and of the other his monopoly of a piece 
of land. 

Who was acting without authority and propriety, the Jews or 
Hilton and Corbin ? Must we stand this nonsense ? Those two men 
were aggressive against the Jews and the Americans in the same time. 
Will the Jews and the Americans submit to it ? 

The papers were mostly reluctant to enter into the matter more 
particularly. It is something which does not pay, it is true, and as yet 
is no political issue. Hilton and Corbin are also advertising a great 
deal in the papers. And then the press saw that the Jews kept quiet. 

A good advice to good Americans : If there are any bad people 
amongst you, from whatever descent, as you cannot get rid of them — 
they would not leave their home and everything — try to elevate them 
to your standard through good example and manners and in good faith, 
and give them a chance — it is the best policy for the inevitable. Do 
not descend yourself from the platform of decency, do not try to dis- 
courage them and keep them down, as otherwise you would merely 
perpetuate the curse against the interests of this great country. 



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The Jews ought to establish a society for advancement, and send 
out promiment men all through the country, from Maine to California, 
to deliver a course of public lectures periodically at popular prices or 
free, in order to educate people, and work for the people, with refer- 
ence principally to politics, financial and social matters, and offering in 
future a guarantee against the intrusion of Corbinism. 

"We want another Theodore Parker ! 

I may have been somewhat plain and outspoken in the previous 
pages, it is not that I give an undue importance to men like Hilton 
and Corbin, but that it is dangerous to allow even the lowest creature 
to violate the principle and the spirit of Liberty and our Constitution. 
To Corbin I say like Pinafore's Captain: 

In uttering a reprobation I'm very sorry "to disparage 

To an American tar, * Sucli a foremost lad, 

I try to speak with moderation, But to drive us off without a carriage, 

But you have gone too far / "Why, damme, it's too bad! 

There appeared another essay, while my pamphlet was under print, 
with the title "Hell for the Jews," by a man named H. P. C. Worth- 
ington, and not worth-ink-t-on wasted. The title draws better than 
"Hail for the Jews," but he will neither receive a title nor much of a 
draft for his work. It is first-rate nonsense. If there is a Hell, there 
is no God, because a God would not make a Hell. If there is a Hell, 
I would like to go there — I am not a bit scared — because I think I 
shall meet there the largest congregation and variety possible. If 
there is a Hell, we have to submit to it when our time comes, but the 
Bible does not say that there is a Hell on earth, and we will not sub- 
mit to that. So much the more reason for making this life agreeable 
to the Jews, because they have to suffer eternal damnation — poor 
creatures. If there is a Hell, it is the one which Bob Ingersoll speaks 
of so gloriously. If there is a Hell, it reminds me of the old anecdote, 
which I apply to Hilton, Corbin, "Worthington, etc. I advise them to 
get buried in a Jewish cemetery, because this is the last place where 

the devil will look for a Hilton, Corbin and W . If there is 

a Hell, those who go to it, have it more convenient here in New 
York than those who go to Heaven, because Hell Gate is right near 
by. It is a hell of a fellow who wrote the book, and it ought to be 
dedicated to His Majesty, the Devil. 

I never speak of Hell, I prefer to dream of Heaven ! 

PAUL ZOTZ. 

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